Clinical trial · Interventional
Capecitabine and Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Nonmetastatic Breast Cancer After Surgery
A Pilot Safety And Feasibility Study Of Concurrent Capecitabine (Xeloda) And External Beam Irradiation In The Adjuvant Treatment Of High Risk Early Stage Breast Cancer.
NCT00562718CI-TRIAL-00046744completedPhase 2Results postedClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrialsProvenance
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as capecitabine, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Radiation therapy uses high energy x-rays to kill tumor cells. Capecitabine may also make tumor cells more sensitive to radiation therapy. Giving radiation together with capecitabine after surgery may kill any remaining tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying the side effects and how well giving capecitabine together with radiation therapy works in treating patients with nonmetastatic breast cancer.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breast Cancer | Malignant Breast Neoplasm | CURATED_EXACT | 0.92 |
Interventions
Interventions (3)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| adjuvant therapy | Procedure | — | UNRESOLVED |
| capecitabine | Drug | Capecitabine | ALIAS |
| radiation therapy | Radiation | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (1)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Surgery and Chemotherapy
- description
- Eligible patients had undergone surgery and chemotherapy for high risk breast cancer, defined as either a T3 or T4 primary tumor, or N2 by either clinical or pathological criteria.
- interventionNames
- Drug: capecitabine
- Procedure: adjuvant therapy
- Radiation: radiation therapy
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Overall Safety
- timeFrame
- 1 year
- description
- Primarily Grade 1 and 2 toxicities attributable to capecitabine
Secondary outcomes (2)
- measure
- Cosmesis
- timeFrame
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- Female
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
- Maximum age
- 120 Years
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DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
* Histologically or cytologically confirmed invasive adenocarcinoma of the breast, meeting 1 of the following high-risk criteria:
* T3 or T4 primary tumor
* 4 or more involved axillary lymph nodes (N2 nodal stage)
* Completed surgical excision
* No immediate reconstruction with autologous flap reconstruction
* Patients having tissue expanders or implants placed prior to radiation may be enrolled at the physician's discretion
* No residual breast cancer
* Microscopically positive margins are allowed if a re-excision is not felt to be clinically justified
* Candidate for radiotherapy
* Must not require bilateral radiotherapy
* No metastatic (stage IV) breast cancer by AJCC staging criteria
* Hormone receptor status not specified
* No CNS disorders
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
* Life expectancy ≥ 6 months
* Karnofsky performance status 70-100%
* Menopausal status not specified
* Ambulatory
* Hemoglobin \> 9 g/dL
* Platelet count \> 100,000/mm³
* ANC \> 1,500/mm³
* Serum AST, ALT, and alkaline phosphatase ≤ 2 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
* Total bilirubin normal
* Creatinine clearance \> 50 mL/min
* Negative pregnancy test
* Not pregnant or nursing
* Fertile patients must use effective contraception during study and for 30 days after the last study drug administration
* No serious, uncontrolled, concurrent infection(s)
* No diabetes with current or history of delayed wound healing or skin ulcers
* No autoimmune connective tissue disorder
* No prior unanticipated severe reaction to fluoropyrimidine therapy, known sensitivity to 5-fluorouracil, or known dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) deficiency
* No other carcinomas within the last five years except cured non-melanoma skin cancer and in-situ cervical cancer
* No clinically significant cardiac disease (e.g., congestive heart failure, symptomatic coronary artery disease, or cardiac arrhythmias not well controlled with medication) or myocardial infarction within the last 12 months
* No other serious uncontrolled medical conditions that the investigator feels might compromise study participation, including any of the following:
* Uncontrolled seizures
* Psychiatric disability judged by the investigator to be clinically significant
* Physically intact upper gastrointestinal tract
* No malabsorption syndrome
* No uncompensated coagulopathy
* No patients whose breast size or body contour puts them at increased risk for skin desquamation from standard radiotherapy
* Able to read and speak English
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
* Fully recovered from surgery and chemotherapy with completely healed surgical wounds
* At least 4 weeks since completion of prior chemotherapy regimen, excluding trastuzumab (Herceptin®)
* Concurrent trastuzumab allowed at the physician's discretion
* More than 4 weeks since prior participation in any investigational drug study
* At least 4 weeks since prior and no concurrent sorivudine or brivudine
* More than 2 weeks since prior major surgery
* No prior capecitabine
* No prior radiotherapy to the chest or ipsilateral lymphatics
* No concurrent hormonal therapy during course of chemotherapy or radiation therapy
* No concurrent allopurinol or cimetidine
* Concurrent coumadin is allowedReferences
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